Homebrew RedCap Species Details

Blood Lust Personified. In the Feywild, or where that plane touches the world at a fey crossing, if a sentient creature acts on an intense desire for bloodshed, one or more redcaps might appear where the blood of a slain person soaks the ground. At first, new redcaps look like tiny bloodstained mushrooms just pushing their caps out of the soil. When moonlight shines on one of these caps, a creature that looks like a wizened and undersized gnome with a hunched back and a sinewy frame springs from the earth. The creature has a pointed leather cap, pants of similar material, heavy iron boots, and a heavy bladed weapon. From the moment it awakens, a redcap desires only murder and carnage, and it sets out to satisfy these cravings.

Redcaps lack subtlety. They live for direct confrontation and the mayhem of mortal combat. Even if a redcap wanted to be stealthy, its iron boots force it to take ponderous, thunderous steps. When a redcap is near to potential prey, though, it can close the distance quickly and get in a vicious swing of its weapon before the target can react.

Steeped in Slaughter. To sustain its unnatural existence, a redcap has to soak its hat in the fresh blood of its victims. When a redcap is born, its hat is coated with wet blood, and it knows that if the blood isn’t replenished at least once every three days, the redcap vanishes as if it had never been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted in its will to survive.

RedCap Traits

RedCaps tend to be strong and brutal

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 2, your Wisdom and Charisma decreases by 1.

 

Age

A redcaps reaches adulthood at the age of 80 and generally lives into the 200.

Alignment

Most redcaps are Chaotic. 

Size

Redcaps average about 2.5 feet tall and weigh about 30 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Nimbleness

You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. You can speak Sylvan but cannot write it

Outsize Strength

While grappling, the redcap is considered to be Medium. Also, wielding a heavy weapon doesn’t impose disadvantage on its attack rolls.

Blood lust Presence

You gain proficiency in intimidation and often done with Strength

Blood Thirst

You can use your reaction to move up to your speed if you land a killing blow on an enemy. This feature cant be used more then once after being used until a long rest